Freemind Collaboration on Windows

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The following batch file for Windows eases sharing your mindmaps and building them in collaboration, by authoring collaboration on FreeMind maps via a fileserver. If you can access the same disk with your collegues in your organisation, you can now work together on your mindmaps: this script avoid multiple edition at the same time (lock the file for you and tell the others that YOU are currently editing it) and make backups each time you open a mindmap (like 2006-04-02_myfilename.mm). Works only on Windows.

Licence

Who use it ?

Generalization

I've put the above idea to more general use, meaning the replacement of Freemind.exe in the windows registered filetypes. This means that the script mentioned below will be called instead and locks the mindmap for every opening through the explorer. Another difference of the script to the original is that the user doesn't need to press any keys in command shells anymore, as the script only continues after the freemind executable (actually java) has been closed by the user. There is still commandshells being opened, which I'm not too happy about.

Use

"Install" the script + the windows registry changes and simply open your .mm files in the explorer

Code

Copy the code below to a command script named startLockFreemind.cmd (for example) and put into your Freemind program folder.
Check if the configuration lines (first lines) fits your needs.

Copy the registry entries to a .reg file (e.g. FreemindLock.reg) and import into registry (doubleclicking). In case you changed the name of the command script then you have to modify the contents accordingly. Also you might need to change the path to the command script to reflect your Freemind program folder location.